A sweeping new survey from International IDEA finds that armed conflict, military takeovers and hollowed-out elections have pushed democracy into retreat across much of Africa and West Asia.
For a continent that once brimmed with the promise of the ballot box, the ledger now reads grimly in red. Between 2020 and 2025, democracy across Africa buckled under the weight of gunfire, palace coups and elections stripped of meaning, according to a sweeping new assessment released Thursday by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.
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